rolling stones v u2

mick / keith // bono / edge

serious question: did the Stones every try to do something Brian Eno?

ever

No. Why would they have? Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters didn't work with Eno either.

I am already familiar with Brian Eno U2 so I voted for Brian Eno Rolling Stones cuz maybe who knows can't be any worse, or well, I suppose it actually could be

Brian hands a little card to Keef that says "play the song like you are homesick pirate", to which Keef replies "what do I think I've been doing for last two hours?"

Stones and I didn’t even have to think about it

No. Why would they have? Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters didn't work with Eno either.

I see your point but they never worked with Arthur Baker either!

Raymond otm

U2 because they made great albums with Lillywhite and the Stones only made an okay one

^^^^ you're triggering me

however much great stuff was still to come and no matter u2's unique contributions to the format - the fundamental boomer insight that something is wrong with rock music if you go from stones to u2 as the biggest band in the world is still correct.

its like LBJ VS Reagan. you can hate both but the correct answer is obvious.

I don't know about that theory. According to Bill Flanagan's essential U2 bio, the band was at pains to stress both its post-punk roots and its roots in rock history. Mick Jagger was an early fan; the book has an amusing anecdote with Jagger and Salman Rushdie in the same private tent during the Zoo TV tour and Jagger noting how the tour and Steel Wheels were a mutual admiration society.

Zoo TV is my favourite tour but Steel Wheels tour had Phil Beer on guitar somewhere, sometimes unknowingly turned right up at the mixing desk when Keith was on an off day, which is more what the fuck still.

Voted U2, I will say it’s definitely weird to think about how U2 is 46 years from their debut, and the Stones were 46 years from their debut five years *after* A Bigger Bang.

That stuff is cosmic horror to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB2ML4UvCFE

there are some good rolling stones songs but i don't really care for them overall and they certainly don't have a zooropa

brian eno

their (not quite as excellent as zooropa but i like it a lot) zooropa = satanic majesties?

stones-eno synergy: brian jones is a enoesque figure on the pipes of pan album, the charlie watts jim keltner project album sounds like a eno-someone collab, and 'heaven' sounds like lc by the durutti column which is supposedly brian's favourite album

I have hated U2 for decades and the Stones were a great band in half of one of those decades and in the two before it, so, the Stones.

i don't know anything about post-70s stones, did they ever make anything as utterly confused as no line on the horizon

quite often! undercover wants to be a dubby dancey artsy album and just another stones album at the same time, a mick v keith thing. dirty work is all over the place too because they hated each other and had no vision for the band so session musicians and guest chums and (non-stones fan) lillywhite paper over the cracks. steel wheels pretends to be a 'proper' stones album but leans as heavily on funky, synthy, weird ('continental drift') stuff as the two before it. a little while later on there's bridges to babylon where mick and keith were at it again which is why mick's sub-bass groove 'might as well get juiced' (which sounds like the fall) is mere tracks away from the deep soul slow burners that keith closes the album with (mick having disappeared already by that point).

all in the spirit of the band really! cus even in the 60s they didn't usually record albums-as-albums and if there's no unifying producer that sort of informal approach tends to resurface (black and blue).

Stones by a million

Dirty Work is the answer.

Pete Davidson as Jagger but who will play Bono? Fight to the death

voted the stones because I don’t think the edge ever slammed a dude with his guitar before

No Stones album has ever disappointed me as much as Achtung Baby (bought it on the promise of a change of direction, heard "Zoo Station," thought, Wow, they don't suck anymore! Shit, this is almost good!, and was then slapped with 11 more goddamn U2 songs), so the Stones.

stones are in that territory where their oldness is the main story, really the only story. their new music sucks. it’s just, they’re old and famous.

george burns was like this, for me, growing up. who was he? some really old guy. he wouldn’t die. he was well respect or something, but i’ve never seen anything he did. he was just famous for being old. maybe letterman and leno just made fun of him a lot in the 90s, i don’t know.

but the only thing that’s interesting about current rolling stones is how they’re still going, and it’s just money, it’s gotta be, they’ve lost it all. same with u2, they’re just younger.

so fuck u2, hatevoting against them in favor of the rolling bears

some people just have too much money
some bands stay together way the fuck too long
not everything has to build exponentially without end

rolling stones should have broken up in 1981 and then stored up all their bullshit for 20 years and released one good fucking song in 2001. it would have been incredible
same with u2, but switch it to 1993 and 2026, like, right now if they were coming back from the first time since the early 90s and they had ONE (1) good song, even like beautiful day level, it would be incredible

that’s right, the rolling bears

Pete Davidson as Jagger but who will play Bono?

Sandler.

gimmie mick, gimmie mick
baby's hair, bulging eyes
lips so thick
are you woman, are you man
I'm your biggest fucked up fan

u2 are deeply lame. them reaching stones levels of fame and acclaim is an indictment of rock as such.

mick's sub-bass groove 'might as well get juiced' (which sounds like the fall)

I had forgotten how weird this song is

He plays good harmonica on it.

stones often offensive, being the "bad boy" anti-beatles through racism and misogyny
u2 mostly boring
i'll go with the stones

westbury white horse doesn't mention Voodoo lounge: it has a bunch of dumb stones-by-numbers tunes, but it also has "Out of Tears," one of their very very best ballads. It may be better than "Stay," but "Numb" is better than "Love is Strong."

i'm confused about Brian Eno being mentioned in this poll

if you should ask, then maybe they'd tell you what i would say